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By Brandon Lundy, CQL Consultant and Self Advocate
One of the most important things for us is to be employed at a job. In today’s society, it is so important to have a job, because there just isn’t enough money being provided by the government to help people. Employment also helps you discover some of the skills and talents you have. Sometimes you work a few different jobs before you discover your talents, while other times you are building yourself up for the job you have always wanted.
One of the things that is important to me, is finding the right job where you can use all your skills and talents. One of my talents is public speaking and being able to be a motivational speaker or MC at events that I enjoy doing. Now that I am working for CQL, I am able to use my skills and talents to maximum, and I enjoy being a motivational speaker while teaching different aspects of the accreditation process at the same time. As I had the opportunity to work with many different leads, I have gained more knowledge and feel I can use some of their styles that they have imparted on to me to teach the accreditation process including the self advocates forum group that is held every time throughout the accreditation processes.
For me, working for CQL is a great honor and privilege to see the impact on the people I meet and the organizations we work with. I think of going into organizations and facilitating to make things better for the people they support is the most important part of my job, and then to seeing the smiling faces on the self advocate and other stakeholders that we have done a great job while we’ve been there. Of course, it is always exciting to go to different places in North America and around the world doing business and meeting lots of different kinds and cultures of people and working with them.
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